Custom software development price in Dhaka, broken down honestly — what you pay for, what you do not.
Most quotes you receive in Dhaka are either suspiciously cheap or unexplained six-figure numbers. I give you an itemised price tied to actual scope: features, screens, integrations, and the hours behind them. Starting from 50,000 BDT, with a real conversation about what you actually need.
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If you have called three places in Dhaka asking the price for custom software, you have probably heard 80,000 BDT, 3,50,000 BDT, and 18,00,000 BDT for what sounded like the same thing. That is not because two of them are lying — it is because nobody asked you the questions that actually move the price. How many user roles? Does it need to talk to your accounting software? Will 5 people use it or 500? Does data need to sync offline? Without those answers, any number is a guess.
I have been building custom software and websites for around five years, and I run every project myself — no junior handing your build to another junior. That matters for pricing because there is no agency overhead, no project manager salary, no sales commission folded into your invoice. You pay for the work, and you talk to the person doing it. The trade-off is honest: I take on a small number of projects at a time, so the price reflects real senior hours, not warm bodies on Bijoy Sarani.
Here is the floor I work from in Dhaka: small internal tools and simple workflow apps start at 50,000 BDT. Mid-size business systems — inventory, CRM, order management with a few integrations — typically land in the 90,000 to 1,50,000 BDT range. Full custom platforms with multiple modules, role-based access, payment integration and reporting dashboards start at 3,00,000 BDT and go up based on scope. Payment is split 50% advance, 50% on launch, and you get a design-approval checkpoint before a single line of backend code is written.
What I will not do is quote you a magic number on a phone call without seeing the brief. If somebody in Dhaka does that, they are either building you a template they sell to ten other clients with your logo swapped, or they will hit you with change requests later. I would rather spend 30 minutes scoping properly than save you 20 minutes now and shock you with a bill in month three.
Six honest cost drivers — when somebody quotes you, ask which of these they have priced in.
Every screen, form, report and workflow is hours. A login page is not the same price as a multi-step approval flow with role-based permissions and audit logs — and a real developer will tell you which is which.
bKash, Nagad, SSLCommerz, Tally, Zoho, SMS gateways, custom APIs — each integration adds setup, testing and edge-case handling. Three integrations cost a lot more than one, and they should be itemised.
A single-user tool is cheap. The moment you need admin, manager, staff and customer roles with different views and permissions, you are paying for a permissions engine — and that is real engineering, not a checkbox.
If your software needs to handle inventory across multiple warehouses, multi-currency accounting, or reconcile bKash transactions against orders, the database design alone is a multi-day job. Simple CRUD is not.
A small tool runs fine on a 1,500 BDT/month VPS. A platform serving 500 daily users needs proper hosting, backups, and a CDN. I size infrastructure to actual load, not to inflate the invoice.
Post-launch support, bug fixes for 30 days, training your team — these should be in the quote, not surprise add-ons. Ask what is included before launch and what is billed hourly after.
At 50,000 to 90,000 BDT in Dhaka, you can realistically get a focused internal tool: a single-purpose application like a leave-tracker for your office, a basic order-entry form that writes to a database, or a customer-record system with search and a few reports. One or two user roles, one database, no payment gateway, deployed on a small VPS. That is a useful piece of software, and it can pay for itself in a quarter if it replaces a messy spreadsheet your team is fighting with daily. What you cannot expect at this price: multiple integrations, mobile apps, complex permissions or analytics dashboards.
From 1,50,000 to 5,00,000 BDT you enter proper business-system territory. This is where most Dhaka SMEs land — a real inventory system that talks to your POS, a CRM with lead scoring and automated emails, a service-booking platform with bKash and Nagad payments, or a multi-branch reporting dashboard. Three to five user roles, two or three integrations, dedicated hosting, and a 30-day support window. Above 5,00,000 BDT, you are funding genuinely custom platforms — multi-tenant SaaS, ERP-style systems with accounting modules, marketplaces with vendor portals — and at that point pricing depends entirely on scope, so the conversation moves from a price list to a proper scoping session with a fixed-fee quote at the end.
Clear packages, fixed quotes, paid in BDT. Pick a starting point — I'll tailor the exact scope on a quick call.
Every project starts at ৳50,000
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Need something bigger? Custom & enterprise builds from ৳3,00,000. Pay by bKash, Nagad, bank transfer or card. Ask for an exact price or send an email.
Real questions Dhaka founders and business owners ask before signing off on a custom software budget.
Honest answer: depends on what you need built. Small internal tools start at 50,000 BDT, mid-size business systems run 90,000 to 1,50,000 BDT, and full custom platforms with multiple integrations start at 3,00,000 BDT. I will give you a fixed quote after a 30-minute scoping call — no vague hourly estimates that balloon later.
Because they are usually selling you a template or a free open-source script with your logo on it, not custom software. If you only need a basic website-style tool, that may be fine. But if you are calling it custom software, somebody is going to write actual code for you — and 50,000 BDT is roughly the floor for that to be done by one senior person rather than rushed by a junior over a weekend.
Fixed price, every time. I quote a number tied to a written scope, you pay 50% advance, 50% on launch. Hourly billing creates a perverse incentive — slower work means a bigger invoice. Fixed price means I am motivated to scope properly and ship on time.
We pause, I quote the new feature as a separate fixed-price item, you approve, we resume. No surprise additions to your invoice. This is the cleanest way to handle scope changes — anyone who lets you keep adding features without a change quote is going to send you a shock invoice later.
The development fee does not include hosting and domain, because those are recurring costs paid to third parties (Namecheap, Cloudflare, DigitalOcean, local providers like ExonHost). I will recommend the right hosting for your software's load, set it up for you, and you pay the provider directly. Typical hosting for a small to mid custom tool runs 1,500 to 6,000 BDT per month.
For larger projects above 3,00,000 BDT, yes — we can structure milestone-based payments tied to specific deliverables (design approval, first module ready, beta launch, final launch). For smaller projects, 50% advance and 50% on launch keeps things simple. bKash, Nagad and bank transfer all accepted.
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